A story in the Houston Chronicle discusses Texas-based grocery H-E-B's efforts to restock and reopen their impacted stores and reach out to individuals in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, H-E-B's lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey.

We've stayed on top of the latest during the storm and we'll share some of those resources with you
If some of the sources don't apply to your situation, use them for inspiration to locate similar resources in your area.

Hurricane / Tropical Storm / Tropical Depression) Harvey continued to cause damage and loss of lives in its path. While we were sheltered-in-place, riding out high winds, heavy rain and local small stream flooding, we were fortunate to have had internet access as the main route of our Intel gathering. I'll come back to that.

Well, in actuality, their headline was, "NFPA encourages prompt disposal of Christmas trees and safe removal of lights", but you probably see where we are going here. NFPA standards have their roots in tragedy. It is their way of saying, "We've noticed this is a really bad thing and this is a better way to go".

We stumbled onto an interesting article, while searching for something else. Our serendipitous find was a 2014 article in Fire Engineering entitled "Are You Ready as an Incident Commander when your Firefighters 'Press Their MAYDAY Button'?" by Joseph "Joe" Pronesti.

Don't miss the 13 points called "The Incident Commander’s rules of engagement for fire-fighter safety".

Course Description: This course is designed to prepare Federal, state, tribal, territorial, and locally-sponsored students to teach the All-Hazards Position-Specific Incident Commander course through the use of lecture, interactive discussion, guided exercises and activities, and practice student teaching. Read more about Training Opportunity 1280 at http://training.fema.gov/emi.aspx .

Over the half dozen, or so, times I sat suicide watch on him, during his several different hospital stays, this was the first time the mystery man was awake and able to hold a conversation. And, I told him so, adding, "What's your story man?"

When I go to sleep, I pray I don't wake up.

I settled in for an a lengthy narrative. But, the mystery man was also a man of few words. And, only one tone of voice. "When I go to sleep," he said, "I pray I don't wake up."

You are not alone

The responder who needs help is not alone. Everybody loses the picture, once in a while.Take the good advice you would give someone else, and talk with somebody.

If you are depressed, having alcohol or drug problems, anger, insomnia or other disruption in your life, be a member of your own team.

Do you have access to peer counseling? Is there an employee assistance program? Take the first step.